By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. For decades, Don Norman has spoken the language of gadgets, explaining how the things we see every day are made and made better. In this smart, sharp, fun exploration of design, Norman pulls back the......

By the author of THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS. Insightful and whimsical, profoundly intelligent and easily accessible, Don Norman has been exploring the design of our world for decades, exploring this complex relationship between humans and machi......

“It is not that Russell Baker is funny, his genius is being so true that nothing remains but to laugh.” —John Kenneth Galbraith "Baker, like Andy Rooney, looks into things that keep all our lives from being ordinary.&q......

From the author of the bestselling book For the Love of Horses, comes an epic new journey to rescue wild Kaimanawa horses from the biennial cull. Follow television stars Vicki, Kelly and Amanda Wilson on their quest to train 10 wild, difficult and......

This third edition of Trees of Southern Africa has been updated, revised and expanded by Meg Coates Palgrave. It features new simplified keys based on leaf characteristics, and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species. All kno......

by Cassandra Clare
ISBN : 9781406307627
Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and prepare to be hooked (Entertainment Weekly).
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandem......

New Zealand's many distinctive landforms are packed into a small space.Geoff Chapple, author of Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail, set out on a year-long journey to find out why, and to seek out the shifting forces that shape them. For company, he ......

Explains the fundamentals of how life works in a captivating and accessible manner.
Author: Elliott, Daphne
Author: Elliott, William
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: How Life Works: The Inside Word from a Biochemis......

It is Ibiza 1997 and rave culture is at its peak. A period of dancing and hedonism forges an unbreakable bond between six friends: an unshakeable tribe is formed. Sharing a deep connection, their dependence on one another will intensify over the y......

Tukie Tales Complete Series-Childrens Picture Storybook-118 pages. Visitors from another planet, Tukies use their special powers to help others--well, most of the time! The youngest Tukie likes playing little tricks on his friends, much to the del......

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a de......

Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refi......

'The weekend her father left -- left the house, the town, the country, everything, packing so lightly I believed he would come back -- he said 'You can raise Nickie by yourself. You'll be good at it. And I had said, 'Are you on crack?' And he re......

A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of fe......